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Mitchell's Awesome Chemistry Wiki! media type="youtube" key="WD9yr-Bf-Kw" height="315" width="392" align="right" 1. Bottled Fuel? Dan Nocera, a chemist with MIT, has discovered that bottled water could be more than just for drinking. He disco​vered that with the sunlight, he can use photosynthesis to split the molecules of water to turn the hydrogen into fuel. It doesn't even have to be clean water either, it could even be puddle water. He used the untreated Charles River in Boston water for his experiments. Dan envisions on taking this technology and putting it in homes all over the world to reduce the cost of energy bills for the poor and rich.

Biello, D. (2010, March 3). //Shift happens: will artificial photosynthesis power the world?//. Retrieved from []

2. From Jawbreak, to Jawboom!media type="youtube" key="G2PRr9KqUOQ" height="307" width="384" align="right"
I love Mythbusters. I see all the crazy stuff they do, including really dumb chemistry stuff. So I decided to do my post on their 'exploits'. The Mythbusters uncover the truth as to why heated Jawbreakers explode. It turns out that the center is heated first and expands, and the outer shell doesn't, meaning if the inside is broken into, it may explode. Exactly what the Mythbusters are looking for. They test out different temperatures and find a good 'explosion point' and then test to see why it explodes. My video only shows the explosion, but later on in the show, they findout that a cleaning agent for the manufacturing machines is explosive and may be the reason why they are more than just 'breaking' jaws.

Conley, Ken. "Episode 20: exploding jawbreaker, static cannon, deadly playing cards." //Annotated Mythbusters// (2004): Web. 21 Mar 2010. .

=3. The Flexible Carmedia type="youtube" key="kTYiEkQYhWY" height="307" width="384" align="right"= BMW has decided to create a new revolutionary kind of car. They reinvented cars as we know it. Who says you have to use metal as the exterior, why not fabric? So, they invented a fabric that was flexible and transluiscent and transformed a light weight car and covered it in this fabric. The fabric moves to adjust in different speeds and conditions. The headlight can be concealed and revealed when it is turned on. When the doors open, the fabric scrunches up together so it doesn't get caught. The rear of the car actually moves to create a spoiler to creat less air resistance by stiffening up. The head rests come out of the seats to come up to the driver's head. Who knows, maybe this is new Jetsons car of the future.

Biener, J. (2008, Autumn). The Flexible car. //BMW Magazine//, 68-73.

=4. Gummy Bears, not as cute as they seem...media type="youtube" key="txkRCIPSsjM" height="345" width="389" align="right"= Gummy Bears, or as they could probably be known as now as being Dummy Bears, are wreaking havoc among the planet. They are taking over in great balls of fire! Or maybe just a little over-reaction...get it reaction, chemistry, man I love dumb puns. Any ways I google videoed cool chemistry and a video popped up showing a Gummy Bear making big flames. He should be punished for his crime of arsen! It created a big flame with molten Potassium Chlorate because the sugar in the Gummy Bears reacted with the molten liquid and created fire. If Gummy Bears are allowed out of prison, they may meet up with Potassium Chlorate again and create more havoc! Hehe. Although, fire does sound cool. The first video I found, it took a long time, and they weren't following proper safety procedures. Tsk Tsk. Curious, how half of my posts already have been about food...

Helmenstine, Anne Marie. "How To Perform the Instant Fire Chemistry Demonstration." //about.com// Web. 8 Apr 2010. []

=5. How are crayons are made!media type="youtube" key="HMU-wXsgyR8" height="346" width="432" align="right"= I was first going to research how markers work, but I realized that there was more chemistry in crayons than markers, so here I am. Crayola cryons are made of parafin wax and pigment. They heat up the wax to 82 degrees celsius and then injected into a mold. They then run cold water at 13 degrees celsius over them to cool them down. This usually makes the process only take 3 to 9 minutes. They then add labels using non-toxic cornstarch and water to glue it so that they won't be harmful to the kids when (not if) they eat them. They are then packaged in big boxes or in boxes of 2 or 3 for restaurants and shipped everywhere. Once the crayons have pressure applied to them on the paper, thats when some of their wax rubs off onto the page.

Author Unknwon. "How are Crayons and markers made?." //HowStuffWorks.com// (2001): Web. 2 May 2010. [].Author Unknown. "How do crayons work?." //Straight Dope// (2001): Web. 2 May 2010. []

=6. Shrew Spitmedia type="youtube" key="G3VkHzZouiI" height="346" width="432" align="right"= A Biochemist with the University of Mount Allison has discovered another possible cure for cancer. Jack Stewart was experimenting with the mucus of shrews he had found in his backyard. Shrews have a toxic mucus or spit they have in the back of their mouths that can paralyze their prey. Stewart was investigating the effects it would have on living cells. He tested it on a batch of ovarian cancer cells to test it out. His test failed because the cancer cells died....Oh wait, the toxin killed the cancer cells! He had actually found another possible way to cure cancer in the least likely of places, a shrew's spit. He did some more testing and concluded that they only killed the cancerous cells, but not the living cells. He purified and synthesized it and developed the active agent that he called soricidin after the genus name of the shrew. He is now going to try and patent it and maybe commercialize it to one day possibly aid in treating cancer.

Sheppard, M. K. (Producer). (2010). //Healing of the shrew//. [Web]. Retrieved from []